2:2. You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols,
according as you were led.
12:3. Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the
Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord
Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.
12:4. Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit.
12:5. And there are diversities of ministries but the same Lord.
12:6. And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who
worketh all in all.
12:7. And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto
profit.
12:8. To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to
another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
12:9. To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the grace of
healing in one Spirit:
12:10. To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to
another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of
tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches.
12:11. But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing
to every one according as he will.
12:12. For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the members
of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also is Christ.
12:13. For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether
Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all
been made to drink.
12:14. For the body also is not one member, but many.
12:15. If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of
the body: Is it therefore not of the Body?
12:16. And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of
the body: Is it therefore not of the body?
12:17. If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If
the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
12:18. But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body
as it hath pleased him.
12:19. And if they all were one member, where would be the body?
12:20. But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.
12:21. And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help. Nor
again the head to the feet: I have no need of you.
12:22. Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more feeble members of
the body are more necessary.
12:23. And such as we think to be the less houourable members of the
body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our
uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
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